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by smiles
Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:10 am
Forum: Accommodation
Topic: House wanted-rental.
Replies: 5
Views: 1665

As above, please check your PM inbox. (Wish the PM feature here was a bit more obvious when it comes to signaling that there is a message waiting. If one doesn't have the email notification loggled 'on' in their profile, a new board member could easily not notice that there is a PM waiting for a few...
by smiles
Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:03 pm
Forum: Property & Real Estate
Topic: Trying to find somewhere decent to rent isnt easy.
Replies: 60
Views: 13789

Korkenzieher wrote:Thanks, I will do that. I will probably land in KL about the 23rd and be in HH on (I think) 1 May, and will look for somewhere for a year with immediate effect. I have a 1 year visa, which will run until the end of June next year.
Please check you PM box

Cheers ...
by smiles
Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:41 pm
Forum: The Beach Bar
Topic: Burgled while sleeping!
Replies: 33
Views: 4529

Interesting post back aways in this thread about song taeow/motobike taxi/tuktuk drivers and the possible dangers in letting them know your precise address. Sounds a bit paranoid for sure, but a definite possibility that you might choose the 'wrong' motorbike taxi one day and end up having your resi...
by smiles
Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:09 am
Forum: Property & Real Estate
Topic: Trying to find somewhere decent to rent isnt easy.
Replies: 60
Views: 13789

I am going to be looking for somewhere from the beginning of May, probably for a calendar year, so this is all useful stuff. Thanks to all contribs. One thing about the 'couple of kilometres from town' places, and that is how do you get about? Do you need a car, motorbike or do you use the tuk-tuks...
by smiles
Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:37 am
Forum: The Beach Bar
Topic: The Corpse ...
Replies: 3
Views: 1336

Re: The Corpse

" ... maybe the tides and weather conspired to wash the unfortunate man and the dog up on the same day ... " Glad you enjoyed the tale, but not the same day. The 2 cadavers were stumbled upon about a month apart ... as I wrote above. Finding them both on the same day would problably be en...
by smiles
Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:55 pm
Forum: The Beach Bar
Topic: The Corpse ...
Replies: 3
Views: 1336

The Corpse ...

( FYI ... I posted this (true) story on another message board ( not about HH) on which I participate to a much larger extend than I do this one. But then, on thinking about it, I thought the folks here on a Hua Hin board might possibly enjoy it as well, as it's about their (and my) Thai home town )...
by smiles
Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:31 pm
Forum: After Dark
Topic: What are your favorite 3 bars.
Replies: 58
Views: 15847

" ... the bar after passed Sofitel and beside the go-go boy bar, the last one on that street. Nice girls and comfortable ... " Just a small point of clarification: the so-called "GoGo boy bar" (I believe the poster is refering to the Red Indian Bar ) is not a 'gogo' bar, but a '...
by smiles
Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:14 pm
Forum: After Dark
Topic: High Season
Replies: 6
Views: 2353

Not a scientific observation, but ...

Our landlady also has a beach consession/restaurant/bar/umbrella thing going on at Hua Hin Beach around Soi 77. She closed down for the season on March 21. I go there frequently (always good business to schmooze with the landlady) and as March wore on I noticed fewer and fewer folks were coming to l...
by smiles
Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:04 pm
Forum: After Dark
Topic: Lindas
Replies: 5
Views: 2547

I live in Soi 80 and there definitely is a Linda Bar here (and around the corner from our place) ... just a block and a half up from the Petchkasem Rd entrance. I pass it by every day and night going here and there, and I'd hardly call it 'notorious': most nights quiet and rather laid back, never em...
by smiles
Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:16 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Buffalo Tavern
Replies: 103
Views: 9043

Re: We try to do our best

" ... In general isn’t it funny that was nearly 2 weeks ago and it takes somebody else’s complaint to give people the get up and go to jump on the band wagon to complain ... Dear smiles ... Now to the undistinguished Fish and Chips. The Fish arrives frozen in filleted 7oz loin pieces all t...
by smiles
Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:57 am
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Buffalo Tavern
Replies: 103
Views: 9043

Taste buds left wanting ....

To throw a wrench into the works . . . we went to Buffalo's last week with the desire for fish and chips, and to introduce my Thai partner to the quaint English pub thing. 70's pop (maybe 60's) music blaring from the speakers in the ceiling (had to ask them to turn it down, which they did). Mosquito...
by smiles
Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:23 pm
Forum: Property & Real Estate
Topic: Long term rental on Soi 80 or 86/87 ...
Replies: 3
Views: 1462

The denouement to this quite old topic may be of interest to anyone thinking of renting (or buying) an attached townhouse (some might call it a 'condo', but we'd use the 'townhouse' label in Canada) in Hua Hin very close to beach and downtown ~ i.e. walking distance. Arrived in early this December a...
by smiles
Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:26 am
Forum: Ask The Expats
Topic: Safety deposit boxes . . .
Replies: 2
Views: 448

" ...There are a very limited number of these with long waiting lists for availability , i tried all the banks with the same answer a couple of years ago ... " Thanks for the info. Sounds like the Thai bank boys are neglecting a potential profit centre. I would've thought they'd be in the...
by smiles
Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:54 am
Forum: On The Road
Topic: Pattaya - Hua Hin Ferry
Replies: 343
Views: 52772

" ... Your post brought back fond memories indeed. In the early 80's I used to travel on the Liverpool to Douglas ferry often for the 'TT' races. Ahh what memories, a ferry full of puking bikers all skulling larger and smoking pot. The best was the 2 stroke boys who started up their bikes in t...
by smiles
Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:53 am
Forum: Ask The Expats
Topic: Safety deposit boxes . . .
Replies: 2
Views: 448

Safety deposit boxes . . .

. . . . are they easily available with checking or savings accounts opened at a Thai bank? Sooner or later next year I will be obliged to open an account (hopefully being in Thailand under a O-A 12 month visa ~ annualy renewable) to fullfill the " renewable " part. At the same time I think...